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The Oregon Historical Society museum is one of the finest historical museums I have ever visited in my 40 years of worldwide travel. The many eye-popping displays are beautifully arranged with insightful explanations and descriptions. There was an excellent new exhibit on the struggles of African Americans to achieve equality and justice, focusing primarily on events & issues in the...
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Just walked out the door a few minutes ago. Place was mostly Portland history. Bottom floor was about Black segregation and was a great exhibit. Second floor was all about modern Portland, full of environmental activism stuff and not really historical. Finally the third floor touched on Oregon's real history, but it felt a bit outdated. A decent place to...
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This is a wonderful museum with the focus on the history of the state as well as Portland. The main focus is on the early native Americans, the fur trade, and the Oregon trail, but they are in the process of putting up a display about African Americans in the community which, from what I could see, looks promising. There...
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Decent place to visit. You'll want to leave your tweens and little ones home, though. A lot of fascinating history, but there is much reading involved, so younger attention spans can't enjoy it like adults do. It's really more of a 3 1/2 star place, but that voting option is not available. Nice volunteers in there, and pretty easy to...
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This is a great museum offering great insight on the early pioneering days of Oregon. From the Huge Covered Wagons of the Oregon Trail to the Native Americans of the NorthWest. The displays are detail oriented. You will most surely learn a great deal about the early days of the Northwest. The museum has a great deal to offer and...
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This is perhaps one of most understated museums in Portland! We went on a whim to tie in with a trip to the Farmer's Market. Entrance is free to Multnomah County residents, but the entrance fee would be worth it! The two permanent exhibits are very set out, have something for the whole family, and evocative of Oregon history -...
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On a recent 10 day drive around northern Oregon (we're from Florida) we enjoyed visiting parks, wineries, waterfalls, Mt. Hood, pear and apple orchards, etc... and decided to visit some educational spots on the first cloudy, windy day of our trip. This History Museum is downtown, across from the Modern Art Museum.
There are four floors. We started on the...
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